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[wbshim]

Hi all,

So I notice that many websites (most of them anyway) use a clean URL structure like this:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/showcase/

instead of something like http://www.something.com/about.php

The only way I can think of doing something like this is putting index.php or .html or whatever files inside individual folders, but this seems sort of inconvenient and not the best way to do it in general. Could anyone lead me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

[Fruityger]

Take a look at:

Apache
HTAccess
Modrewrite

It is called rewriting a URL.

Both:
http://www.something.com/about.php
and:
http://www.something.com/about-us/

Will work. The location does not change, just some settings in the .htaccess file.

[wbshim]

Thanks a lot for the help. I'm having a bit of trouble getting it to work though.

Figured the problem out!

So I want to redirect:

http://wbshim.res.cmu.edu/sdcbuggy/raceday09

to

http://wbshim.res.cmu.edu/sdcbuggy/raceday09.php

And it works for the most part, but the stylesheet does not get loaded. The folder /css is in the same folder that the .php files are in. And the relevant part of my .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^raceday09/$ raceday09.php
RewriteRule ^about/$ about.php
RewriteRule ^members/$ members.php
RewriteRule ^videos/$ videos.php
RewriteRule ^gallery/$ gallery.php
RewriteRule ^history/$ history.php
RewriteRule ^join/$ join.php

any ideas?

[kavoir]

For grand new sites, you may consider using a CMS such as wordpress as it would automatically implement all those clean and nice URLs for you.